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Ted Lasso learns believing has limits

Melanie McFarland

In women's sports stories, persuading athletes to believe in themselves is only half the game

The Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, drained for repairs, near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 2026. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Trump's bottomless pool of corruption

Brian Karem

Corruption, bigotry, incompetence — pick one. When are we finally rid of this guy?

Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, has been accused of physical violence and child abuse by his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, daughter of GOP Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Miller tests GOP limit for terrible men

Amanda Marcotte

A wave of abuse scandals in Congress have started to worry even Republicans

President Donald Trump (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The world is calling Trump’s bluff

Heather Digby Parton

The president’s empty threats and erratic diplomacy have underscored America’s unreliability

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche attends a news conference on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

Trump's AG pick takes aim at abortion

Shefali Luthra - The 19th

Todd Blanche has repeatedly expressed openness to restrictions on medication abortion

Former National Institutes of Health Director Anthony Fauci (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Fauci is an easy scapegoat

Troy Farah

The Trump admin can deflect from their public health failures — including Ebola and the cyclospora outbreak

Igby Rigney as Bret, Hayes Warner as Debbie Schaffer in "The Shards" (Ray Mickshaw/FX)

"The Shards" oozes '80s excess

Melanie McFarland

Ryan Murphy’s collab with the American Psycho author brings Gen X's wasted youth back from the grave

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to reporters during a press conference ahead of a vote on the foreign aid package in Washington, DC on April 23, 2024. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

McConnell discharge revives rumors

Alex Galbraith

Mitch McConnell is heading home. The internet still wants to hear from him

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. (Image Credit: NASA)

SpaceX’s rocket trashes the moon

Troy Farah

The collision is a reminder that we’re junking everything we touch

Boy George's latest single "We Will Dance Again" was created with artificial intelligence ( Ki Price/WireImage)

Boy George blows it all up for slop

Alex Galbraith

The singer should have at least had the decency to make his new agitprop single by hand

"Chef's Table" from Netflix (Netflix)

Why "Chef's Table" still matters

Francesca Giangiulio

A decade later, “Chef's Table” still shapes how I see food as culture and community

Perez Hilton (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

The end of looking away on social media

Melanie McFarland

Perez Hilton's crisis went out live and unfiltered. That's not an accident anymore.

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The Democratic male's midlife crisis

Jeremy Fassler

The Pod Bros, Chris Murphy and others are chasing the far left to stay young. At what cost?

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, who won Michigan's Democratic primary for the Senate, will face former GOP Rep. Mike Rogers in November (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

El-Sayed's win causes GOP meltdown

Jason Kyle Howard

Republican efforts to turn the Democratic Senate nominee into a boogeyman betray their fear

Barbed wire lines a fence outside of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility , where ICE is housing detained immigrants, on August 4, 2026, in Newark, New Jersey. The demand for a shutdown continues  after El Salvadoran immigrant Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died  on August 1st while in custody at the facility.  He was the 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Two more deaths at Delaney Hall

Bob Hennelly

Alleged lack of medical care contributed to the deaths, in addition to 22 deaths in ICE custody this year

Michigan Democratic Senate primary winner Abdul El-Sayed arrives to a press conference in front of the Spirit of Detroit statue on August 05, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. Sayed called on Michiganders to unite against Mike Rodgers as well as challenging him to multiple debates.  (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images) (Photo by Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

El-Sayed: Bigotry is GOP's only move

Alex Galbraith

The Senate candidate encouraged his opponents to get better talking points

In an aerial view, Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch is shown on March 8, 2026 outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Photo by Roberto E. Rosales/Getty Images)

New Mexico sues DOJ over Epstein delays 

Troy Farah

The lawsuit accuses Todd Blanche and the DOJ of perpetuating “that disgrace” of failing to investigate Epstein

The Beatles, 1966 (Express Newspapers/Getty Images)

"Revolver" at 60 still unfolds secrets

Kenneth Womack

The legacy of "Revolver" as The Beatles' creative turning point just never gets old

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. puts on his apron before helping to serve lunch during a tour of the kitchen at Cunningham Elementary School in Austin (Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

RFK Jr.’s cooking show has no appetite

Ashlie D. Stevens

Joyless salmon patties, cheap graphics and policy detours add up to a cooking show curiously uninterested in food

Ariana Grande at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes (Christopher Polk/2026GG/Penske Media via Getty Images)

How Ariana Grande's body got political

Amanda Marcotte

MAGA influencers want women not just thin, but weak

Firefighters try to extinguish a fire in the town of Plomari on the Greek island of Lesbos. (Manolis Lagoutaris / AFP via Getty Images)

Lesbos is burning. I’m not there

Dimitrios Aletras Jr.

A first-generation Greek-American reckons with fire, migration and the homeland he left behind

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz speaks at a fireside chat in the National Press Building on February 02, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Trump admin weaponizes imagined fraud

Ben Zdencanovic - The Conversation

Expert breaks down how Trump's health officials are trying to prove that Medicaid itself is wasteful

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro has drawn Trump's ire after failed prosecutions related to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Pirro's Reflecting Pool reckoning

Sophia Tesfaye

The former Fox News star couldn't sustain Trump's fantasy. Her downfall is a classic MAGA tale

(© 2004 Diana Wynne Jones/Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli, NDDMT)

A Miyazaki film that sees our heart

Melanie McFarland

"Howl's Moving Castle" is many things, but ultimately it's an honest appraisal of the human spirit

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